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The smallest breed of cat is the Singapura. The largest is the Ragdoll.

Ruherford B. Hayes was the first American president to have a Siamese cat.

A large group of flamingos is called a “flamboyance.” One term for a large group of butterflies is called a “kaleidoscope.” Get a bunch of hyenas together, and you’ve got yourself a “cackle.”

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A group of kittens is a kindle.

A group of adult cats is a clowder.

A group of baboons is a congress.

Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela gets struck by lightning more than 200 times every year – that’s more than anywhere else on earth.

Five miles (eight kilometers) above Lake Maracaibo, storm clouds gather up to 160 nights per year and can last for up to 10 hours.

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Denis Istomin and Varvara Lepchenko were both born in 1986, are both Russian and both grew up in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic were born within a week of one another in 1987.

Emil Zatopek, triple winner of the 5,000 meters, 10,000 meters and marathon at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland and his wife, Dana Ingrova Zatpkova, winner of the women's javelin at the same Olympics, were born within four hours of one another (Emil being older) on September 19, 1922.

After the launch of Windows 98, Microsoft released a tool called the ‘Critical Update Notification Tool.’ By 2002, the company quietly renamed it ‘Critical Update Notification Utility’ when they realized what its former acronym actually spelled.

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SNAFU actually stands for "Situation Normal, All F***ed Up." The sanitized version is, "Situation Normal, All Fouled Up."

Some people are resistant to local anesthesia, and nobody knows why. This rare condition forces people to basically just suffer through medical procedures others would be locally anesthetized for, like dental drilling and wisdom teeth removal.

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A group of geese is a gaggle.
A group of crows is a murder [did Edgar Allen Poe make that up?]
A group of owls is a...parliament? The heck?

Elvis wore a cross, the Star of David, and the Hebrew Chai symbol around his neck because he didn’t want to “miss out on Heaven due to a technicality.”

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Serbian tennis player Janko Tipsarevic has the phrase "Beauty will save the world," (from Dostoyevsky's The Idiot), tattooed on his arm-in Japanese!

Ethnic mixes of tennis players:

Angelique Kerber-German and Polish
Dustin Brown-German and Jamaican
Andrea Petkovic-German and Serbian
Naomi Osaka-Japanese and Haitian
Roger Federer-German, Dutch and French
Andreas Seppi-German and Italian
Nick Kyrgios-Greek and Malaysian

at least one of zagreb's botanic gardens is currently closed until this april.



(shame, i wanted to go there)

Germany had so much renewable energy on May 8, 2016, that it had to pay citizens to use electricity. It was so windy and sunny that turbines and solar power sources were supercharged, output exceeded demand, and prices went negative, so customers were actually paid to consume energy.

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Lithuania has the highest homicide rate in Europe when you consider the population of each country.